Page 5 - How to Be a Difficult Bitch: Claim Your Power, Ditch the Haters, and Feel Good Doing It

INTRO

AND COMMANDMENTS

So you want to be a Difficult Bitch.
Welcome!
You’ll be joining a long line of Difficult Bitches—maybe
even from your own family.
(Don’t worry, it’s a compliment.)
Maybe your grandma was an amazing chess player.
Maybe your aunt ran for city council against a bunch of old
dudes. Maybe your mom or stepmom raised you to follow
your dreams. Maybe your dad was the only one to stand up
for LGBTQ rights in a very conservative area.
None of them would have gotten there without being
a Difficult Bitch, or without being mentored by Difficult
Bitches.
In some form or another, pioneering aviator Amelia
Earhart was called a Difficult Bitch. Same for Grace Hopper,
who invented the first computer programming language
compiler. Let’s not even get started on suffragists or civil
rights activists, who were called all kinds of things, among
them most certainly: Difficult Bitch.
If you ask me, being a Difficult Bitch is a good thing.
Difficult Bitches are agents of change. They’re heroes
who don’t wear capes (or maybe they do, and that cape is
fierce). They annoy people. They threaten the status quo. All
of this is, of course, in the name of self-love, confidence, and
the greater good.

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